I moved to a new city a few years ago and tried matchmaker.com.
I only signed up for their two-week free membership.
Those two weeks got me connected and provided 3 months worth of dates (almost every weekend).
I played the "numbers" game - just send/respond to as many women, then befriended friends (my motto: even an ugly date has some good looking friends) then started getting invited to private parties.
It was sooo much fun, thinking about it nowadays. 2-week free membership = 3 month kick start and 9 months worth of active dating many women until I met the person who eventually became my girlfriend.